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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Island...

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...ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION ... ...-- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became master... ...t results to his advantage -- Surprising sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners -- Powder pots used ... ...pture of an Indian village -- A terrible storm -- In sight of Panama -- A foot race for the field -- A bloody spectacle -- The battle of Panama -- A t... ...slaughter of penguins provides provisions for the crew -- Meeting with a pigmy race of Indians -- Visit to a Fuegan village -- Driven out to sea and l... ...island of Japan, Marco Polo started on a voyage to the Chinese Sea, around the Malay Archipelago, and thence to India, having been the first European ... ... Saracens, drawn thither by promises of a lucrative trade with the neighboring Malays of the Continent. He saw numerous cities, but of what size or co... ... indebted for nearly all the information that we possess of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. AMONG THE NEW GUINEANS. On the 2nd of April, Tasman ...

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...most advanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor... ...gapore’ was a highly effective leader. After Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, the British educated leader led a population of Chinese, ... ... have to provide more jobs for more people. When Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965 it became more aggressive in population control. It set up... ...e were never ethnically pure. Like Singapore we were Chinese, Indians and Malays. We have always had our fair share of Europeans and Americans. As ou... ...em to the reality of global destruction and the possible end of the human race. Hopefully it is not too late. It makes me wonder about the intellige... ... are not all that much lower in most Western countries. “In nearby Malaysia we are seeing some equality creeping into Islam. The rise of femal... ...fy for other jobs the floods of immigrants from different places, faiths, races and cultures will be left to turn their anger on each other and, ver...

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...is table not far from a little green painted door, by which always stood a Malay in a red sash and turban, and whose hand, holding a small string dang... ... spirits who, fitting out schooners on the Australian coast, in- vaded the Malay Archipelago in search of money and adven- ture. Bold, reckless, keen ... ...ere seamen; the acknowledged king of them all was Tom Lingard, he whom the Malays, honest or dishonest, quiet fishermen or desperate cut-throats, reco... ...ndour. As to the other side of the picture—the companionship for life of a Malay girl, that legacy of a boatful of pirates—there was only within him a... ...where, any- where, out of his gorgeous future. Easy enough to dispose of a Malay woman, a slave, after all, to his Eastern mind, convent or no convent... ... spirited music of swarming mosquitoes. Under the palm-leaf thatch lizards raced on the beams calling softly. A monkey, chained to one of the verandah... ...of deeds valorous, albeit somewhat bloodthirsty, where men of her mother’s race shone far above the Orang Blanda, she felt herself irresistibly fascin... ...to the old woman’s tales of the departed glories of the Rajahs, from whose race she had sprung, and she became gradually more indifferent, more contem... ... softness of the almost feminine eye, that general char- acteristic of the race. Now, the first surprise over, Nina saw those eyes fixed upon her with...

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...s on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centu- ries the scene of adventurous underta... ...day has not been robbed of all the mystery and romance of its past—and the race of men who had fought against the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch... ...eir country as the earth of their islands—has fallen a prey to the western race—the reward of superior strength if not of superior virtue. To-morrow t... ...his noble instincts is in the veneration with which a strange and faithful race cherish his memory. Misunderstood and traduced in life, the glory of h... ...ke a spear poised high in the hand of an enemy. Right aft by the wheel the Malay quartermaster stood with his bare, brown feet firmly planted on the w... ...u’ve been sleeping—you. Shift the helm. She has got stern way on her.” The Malay, without the least flinch of feature or pose, as if he had been an in... ...nd for that matter to hear, nothing. The white man looked at the impassive Malay with disgust, then glanced around the horizon—then again at the helms... ...Don’t you feel the air from aft? You are like a dummy standing there.” The Malay revolved the spokes again with disdain- ful obedience, and the red-fa... ...family resemblance was lost in the more general traits common to the whole race. They were natives of Wajo and it is a common say- ing amongst the Mal...

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...r profit as for the plea- sure of finding them—he soon became known to the Malays, and by his successful recklessness in sev- eral encounters with pir... ...ad for his weaknesses, could easily see that it was enough to give him his Malay title to flatter him greatly. So when there was anything to be gained... ...ly into the stern sheets and took up the yoke lines. “Give way there.” The Malay boat crew lay back together, and the gig sprang away from the quay he... ...nd rushed past him with a frightened snarl. He was now in the midst of the Malay quarter whose bamboo houses, hidden in the verdure of their little ga... ... the hardest obstacles. Lakamba listened, silent but interested. They were Malay adventurers; ambitious men of that place and time; the Bohemians of t... ... adventurers; ambitious men of that place and time; the Bohemians of their race. In the early days of the settlement, before the ruler Patalolo had sh... ...ind already some semblance of organization amongst the settlers of various races who recognized the unobtrusive sway of old Patalolo, and he was not p... ...east, from those parts where no white man ruled, and to be of an oppressed race, but of a princely family. And truly enough he had all the gifts of an... ...nd darting an angry glance at Willems. Those two specimens of the superior race glared at each other savagely for a minute, then turned away their hea...

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...wrote and marks, in a manner of speak- ing, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceive... ...ffort in short-story writing was a depar- ture—I mean a departure from the Malay Archi- pelago. Without premeditation, without sorrow, without rejoici... ... a silent old fellow in a richly embroidered black jacket alone of all the Malays around did not follow the masterful gesture with a look. He did not ... ...le, to be destroyed by any- thing short of an earthquake. He summed up his race, his country, the elemental force of ardent life, of tropi- cal nature... ... could shoot straighter, and negotiate more tortuously than any man of his race I knew. He was an adventurer of the sea, an outcast, a ruler—and my ve... ...slapping him on the back, for there are liberties one must not take with a Malay. He said himself that on such occasions he was only a private gentlem... ...the cabin floor. We could hear Jackson, who had gone out to drive away our Malay seamen from the doorway of the companion; he swore menacingly in the ... ...ng-places sur- rounded by forests—words are spoken that take no account of race or colour. One heart speaks—another one listens; and the earth, the se... ...s tears . . . What for? . . . We fled. We collected wanderers of a warlike race and came here to fight again. The rest you know. I am the ruler of a c...

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...eams, which it influenced more fearfully than could be imagined. One day a Malay knocked at my door. What business a Malay could have to transact amon... ... his attainments in English were exactly of the same extent as hers in the Malay, there seemed to be an impassable gulf fixed between all com- municat... ... and looking more like a rustic hall of entrance than a kitchen, stood the Malay— his turban and loose trousers of dingy white relieved upon the dark ... ...inde- pendent attitude, contrasted with the sallow and bilious skin of the Malay, enamelled or veneered with mahogany by ma- rine air, his small, fier... ...ish Opium-Eater tures and adorations. Half-hidden by the ferocious-looking Malay was a little child from a neighbouring cottage who had crept in after... ...l is the seat of awful images and associations. As the cradle of the human race, it would alone have a dim and reverential feeling con- nected with it... ...ies, modes of faith, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chin...

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... the word to steady the helm. It was the Serang, an elderly, alert, little Malay, with a very dark skin, who murmured the order to the helmsman. And t... ...ed creek with granite shores. Moored between the square blocks a sea-going Malay prau floated half hidden under the arch of masonry, with her spars lo... ...ves—she too had her indispensable man. They lived through each other, this Malay he had never seen, and this high-sterned thing of no size that seemed... ...y were gathering low be- tween the deep stonefaced banks of the canal. The Malay prau, half-concealed under the arch of the bridge, had not altered it... ...ofala approaching the bar of Batu Beru. “No, Tuan. By-and-by see.” The old Malay, in a blue dungaree suit, planted on his bony dark feet under the bri... ...ineer of the Sofala remained very still behind the two seamen of different race, creed, and color; the European with the time-defying vigor of his old...

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... which rested on the blanket of my bed-place. They referred to a sunset in Malayan Isles and shaped them- selves in my mind, in a hallucinated vision ... ...was my practice directly after my breakfast to hold animated receptions of Malays, Arabs, and half-castes. They did not clamour aloud for my attention... ...within sight. I had just come up yawning from my cabin. The serang and the Malay crew were overhauling the cargo chains and trying the winches; their ... ..., and their movements were languid. That tropical daybreak was chilly. The Malay quartermaster, coming up to get something from the lockers on the bri... ...I heard his name distinctly pronounced sev- eral times in a lot of talk in Malay language. Oh, yes, I heard it quite distinctly—Almayer, Almayer—and s... ...ere to the fine edge of my conscience, that heir- loom of the ages, of the race, of the group, of the family, colourable and plastic, fashioned by the... ...-told tale of per- sonal experience. For Englishmen especially, of all the races of the earth, a task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit a... ... this exami- nation in terms of eternity. It is all very well for him. His race is run. But I may find myself coming out of this room into the world o... ...of wine swallowed— it was literally no more than that with this abstemious race— the pilots would pass the time stamping their feet on the slabs of se...

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... which rested on the blanket of my bed-place. They referred to a sunset in Malayan Isles and shaped them- selves in my mind, in a hallucinated vision ... ...y after my breakfast to hold animated receptions of 18 Some Reminiscences Malays, Arabs and half-castes. They did not clamour aloud for my attention.... ...within sight. I had just come up yawning from my cabin. The serang and the Malay crew were overhauling 73 Joseph Conrad the cargo chains and trying t... ...w and their movements were languid. That tropical daybreak was chilly. The Malay quartermaster, coming up to get something from the lockers on the bri... ...t I heard his name distinctly pronounced several times in a lot of talk in Malay language. Oh yes, I heard it quite dis- tinctly—Almayer, Almayer—and ... ...there to the fine edge of my conscience, that heirloom of the ages, of the race, of the group, of the family, colourable and plastic, fashioned by the... ...rsonal experience. 91 Joseph Conrad For Englishmen especially, of all the races of the earth, a task, any task, undertaken in an adventur- ous spirit... ...ng this examination in terms of eternity. It is all very well for him. His race is run. But I may find myself coming out of this room into the world o... ...f wine swallowed—it was liter- ally no more than that with this abstemious race— the pilots would pass the time stamping their feet on the slabs of se...

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.... We sat in the light of the window, and her father prowled about the ter- race, with his hands behind his back and his head drooping. The white-haire... ...ase. He had, he said, a couple of Tahitian amongst his boys—a ghost-ridden race. They had started the scare. They had prob- ably brought their ghost w... ...there on a large stone found the sandals, Renouard’s white jacket, and the Malay sarong of chequered pattern which the planter of Malata was well know... ...ttle one which we used to chaff him about. He ran her alone, with only the Malay serang for a deck officer. The nearest approach to another white man ... ...stagnation. “All the population was on the river-bank staring silently, as Malays will do, at the Sissie anchored in the stream. She was almost as won... ...ou couldn’t find on a map, and more squalid than the most poverty-stricken Malay settlement had a right to be, this European woman com- ing swishing o... ...you would think a very bilious white man. And I daresay he was. He owned a Malay prau and called himself The Nakhoda, as one would say: The Captain. A...

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... nature of man and the nature of things together; we should make the whole race wise, tolerant, noble, per- fect—wave our hands to a splendid anarchy,... ...ess; and so we must needs face the fact that we are to have differences of race. Even the *Vide an excellent article, La Langue Francaise en l’an 2003... ... Wells lower class of Plato’s Republic was not specifically of differ- ent race. But this is a Utopia as wide as Christian charity, and white and blac... ...ven to glance at its issues. But here we underline that stipulation; every race of this planet earth is to be found in the strictest parallelism there... ...ressed by the uniqueness and the unique signifi- cance of individualities. Races are no hard and fast things, no crowd of identically similar persons,... ...onounce judgments on the moral and intellectual capacity of the negro, the Malay, or the Chinaman. You have mission- aries, native schoolmasters, empl...

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...ean. Taste all these dishes. Here is a pre- serve of sea-cucumber, which a Malay would declare to be unrivalled in the world; here is a cream, of whic... ...taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would soon become extinct. Captain Nemo’s companion took the beast, th... ...a; and I remarked chiefly the variety desti- tute of seeds, which bears in Malaya the name of “rima.” Ned Land knew these fruits well. He had already ... ...he tops of the trees, little beans that I recognised as the “abrou” of the Malays, and yams of a superior quality. We were loaded when we reached the ... ... had no trouble in recognising them. “Birds of paradise!” I exclaimed. The Malays, who carry on a great trade in these birds with the Chinese, have se... ... them easily; they were true Papuans, with athletic fig- ures, men of good race, large high foreheads, large, but not broad and flat, and white teeth.... ...his devotion to a human being, a repre- 151 Jules Verne sentative of that race from which he fled beneath the sea. Whatever he might say, this strang... ...Do you think I am igno- rant that there are suffering beings and oppressed races on this earth, miserable creatures to console, victims to avenge? Do ... ...the sufferings of humanity, and that his immense charity was for oppressed races as well as individuals. And I then understood for whom those millions...

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... jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Y ankees have often scared... ...eling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who ... ... from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back. From having the baleen... ...lly, ah!—the old grudge makes me touchy (Advancing.) A ye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable dark side of mankind—devilish dark at that. No offen... ...wer a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired V enetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was ther... ...le’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam 182 Moby Dick down; and then, as if his chest had been a mo... ...r claim to more solid tribute. Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sal-... ...ot-hole, crying, “Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the sails;—Malays, sir, and after us!” As if too long lurking behind the headlands, ti... ...he ship, than to rejoice that the ship had so victoriously gained upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake of the whales, at length they seem...

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... jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared ... ...eling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who ... ... from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back. From having the baleen... ... ah! — the old grudge makes me touchy. (Advanc ing.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable dark side of mankind — devilish dark at that. No off... ...wer a blade of grass in the field. No tur baned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming Chapter 41 Moby Dick 181 mal... ...le’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst ... ...r claim to more solid tribute. Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets Chapter 87 The Grand... ... hole, crying, “Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the sails; — Malays, sir, and after us!” As if too long lurking behind the headlands, ti... ... ship, than to re joice that the ship had so victoriously gained upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake of the whales, at length they seem...

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...ion is withdrawn. This type of error has, for instance, caught many of the race of chemists, and atoms and ions and so forth of the same species are t... ...dominating point of view—our individuali- ties, our nations and states and races are but bubbles and clusters of foam upon the great stream of the blo... ..., incidental experiments in the growing knowledge and consciousness of the race. I think this real solidarity of humanity is a fact that is only slowl... ...ken in the delusion of the permanent separateness of the individual and of races and nations, that so it turns upon itself and frets against itself an... ...d west to interlace the branches of every family tree in the world. If any race stands apart it is such an isolated group as that of the now extinct T... ...ven here, in the remote dawn of navigation, may have come some shipwrecked Malays, or some half-breed woman kid- napped by wandering Phoenicians have ...

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...inot’s vices and idleness. Always at war with necessity, he was one of the race of poverty-stricken and superior men who can do everything for the for... ...ession of Greece and Asia Minor. Esther came from that cradle of the human race; her mother was a Jewess. The Jews, though so often deteriorated by th... ...n deteriorated by their contact with other nations, have, among their many races, families in which this sublime type of Asiatic beauty has been prese... ... tender- ness of her expression that could moderate their fire. Only those races that are native to deserts have in the eye the power of fascinating e... ... scare the eye, as flat as a board, with the copper complexion peculiar to Malays, with a nose that looked as if it had been driven inwards by some vi... ... women who are even greedier but more wheedling and mealy-mouthed than the Malay woman, and who put a gloss of the best motives on the trade they ply.... ...y were on the landing. And he vanished after giving his instruction to the Malay who went back into the room. She found Esther weeping bitterly. The p... ...said Desplein, after a careful examina- tion. “It is a poison found in the Malayan Archipelago, and derived from trees, as yet but little known, of th... ..., of the strychnos family; it is used to poison that dangerous weapon, the Malay kris.—At least, so it is reported.” The Police Commissioner presently...

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...southern Greece. Their men are huge, but they are the mildest of the human race. Their dogs are huge, also; so far the parallel holds. We regret that ... ...uffaloes. Dampier mentions a case which he witnessed in some island with a Malay population, where a herd of buffaloes contin- ued to describe concent... ...ir poetry, their drama, their novels, it is an interest to which the whole race is deaf and blind. A Frenchman or an Italian (for the Italian, in many... ...ay affirm all to be Albanian. Well; but what is Albanian? For the Albanian race, as having its headquarters in regions once undoubtedly oc- cupied by ... ... having its headquarters in regions once undoubtedly oc- cupied by a Greek race. Epirus, for instance, Acarnania, &c., may still be Grecian by descent... ...stern recesses of the island. And the Albanians are held to be a Sclavonic race—such at least is the accredited theory; so that modern Greece is con- ...

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...restlessness among the people; much what I have seen among the people on a race-course, when the bell has rung for the saddling for a great race with ... ... gate. From a spy-hole, I could see the whole crowd of Pirates. There were Malays among them, Dutch, Maltese, Greeks, Sambos, Ne- groes, and Convict E... ... behind me—were steady and ready with the arms. I had a lot of Maltese and Malays upon me, and, but for a broadsword that Miss Maryon’s own hand put i...

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...m, great agility, and high spirit made him excel. Cricket, riding, running-races, all the school amusements were his delight; fireworks for the 5th of... ...ies, and even the different families, (e.g., the Indo-Germanic and Semitic races,) is not only interesting, but very useful. I wish I had made myself ... ...off all the properly called Polynesian isles, whose inhabitants are of the Malay type, and had been the objects of care to the London Mission, ever si... ...ion. These were regarded as less quick but more steady than the Polynesian race, with somewhat the same difference of character as there is between th... ...of a low class are apt to do towards those whom they regard as an inferior race. Mission work had hardly reached this region. It was in attempting it ... ...n or Navi- gators’ Islands, in which were educated young men of the native races to be sent to the isles to prepare the way for white men. Very nobly ... ...ew chapters of Kings with the Lord’s Prayer in a fourth, besides Marsden’s Malay grammar and lexicon. Mrs. Nihill has given me some few sheets of the ...